12/20/2010

Suckling vs. Sadat X (the F****d Up Factor)

Deep Throat called me, breathed heavilly into my phone and said, Alice, babe, you know what you should do?"

I couldn't resist. He/She was really correct.

I have found the James Suckling video's, (where he goes on a points rampage, sizing all wines up by numbers, saying tea, sweet jam and cigar box) too disturbing to watch. In what I had seen the ego and status driven episodes were a compression of vapid, superficial culture.

But when my Deep Throat, suggests I have to watch the segment where James enters a shop off of an LA highway, where the owner gives him a Zaccagnini, well, out of respect for our friendship, I do.

I personally have not had this Contadina Zaccagnini, a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, (not a vino nobile) in over a decade.I have nothing invested in the wine nor do I have an opinion. (Not exactly true, but I won't comment on its flavor.)

I suggest you watch them both; in Jame's video, if you manage to get through the 1st quarter of the tape, you'll arrive to the handing off of the Contadina Zaccagnini.

Comments

My buds at Zaccagnini loved Sadat X's review when it came out.

Has it gotten down to this, that James Suckling can walk in a store and like the Amazing Kreskin, put the bottle in his hands and determine the quality (as evidenced in his world by a score or 90 or more?)

Jeesh - our world is really missing the point when it all comes done to them.

Funny up to a point, then the tragedy comes in. But Solondz's films also have heart, and that's a big point of difference. This to me was more like the part of Greenaway's films (Belly of an Architect and The Cook the Thief..) when I must cover my eyes or leave the room.

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